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In answer to Anne Bodine's point, both the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and the Collins Cobuild Dictionary use they and their as the non-gender-specific pronoun/adjective (which the reader probably noted also in the first paragraph of this review).
Both Longman and W9 estimate their macrostructure ( headwords/entries ) and their microstructure ( definitions ). But what of Cobuild and CED ? What do they mean by references ? In CED the relevant definition of reference seems to be “a book or passage referred to,” or perhaps “a mention or allusion”; in Cobuild , “something such as a number or name that tells you where you can obtain the information that you want, for example from a book, list, or map.
Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected—including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).
I was under the impression it was based on Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary , and indeed it was; but there are so many improvements and changes that the absence both of a Longman copyright notice and of any identification of a specific editorial director are a bit mysterious.
Also, considering that the costs of the conference were borne almost entirely by the NYAS (with contributions from the Center for Applied Linguistics, G. & C. Merriam Company, Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, Limited, Laurence Urdang Inc., Longman Group Limited, Scott Foresman and Company, and Wm.
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